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Last Year

This Week Last Year: Nutrition, Headwinds, and the Sahara Desert
ByBlaine Moore February 23, 2008

This week last year, I wrote a bit about nutrition. First, I reviewed a few nutrition books, and I also discussed a study that found that our brains ignore calories from beverages. That makes it easier for us to eat more than we should when we drink juice or soda. Another study found that children…

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Sports

When was the last time you ran 4000 miles across the Sahara Desert?
ByBlaine Moore February 20, 2007

This afternoon, three runners finished running across the Sahara Desert. The entire Sahara Desert. They ran from Senegal to Egypt, 44 to 50 miles per day, for 111 days. Did I mention that they did that in the Sahara Desert? American Charlie Engle, Canadian Ray Zahab, and Taiwanese Kevin Lin ran across the desert in…

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